- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Gollancz (6 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575066156
- ISBN-13: 978-0575066151
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.6 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 664,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The easy way to describe Jonathan Carroll's novels is to call them indescribable. Since his strange debut The Land of Laughs (1980), he's developed his own special flavour of fantastic or magic-realist unease. The protagonists have wonderful and successful lives, glowingly described--this latest book stars a popular, high-living and attractive woman who loves her lucrative career as a rare book dealer. As always in Carroll, though, the glittering surface of Miranda's good life conceals a certain hollowness. Shocking booby-traps await her, stabs of horror and loss from unexpected directions. Small indicators of wrongness accumulate: a wheelchair-bound woman glimpsed in an impossible place on a Los Angeles superhighway, a dog set on fire, a hospice named Fieberglas misheard as "Fever Glass". Dead men and unborn children seem to stalk Miranda. At one point she notices a scene from her tragically interrupted love affair showing on the giant screen of a deserted drive-in movie theatre. Neither Miranda nor the world are quite as she believes: but when she's been openly, nightmarishly condemned for being what she is, there is for once a slender chance of renunciation and redemption. The finale is enigmatic but oddly satisfying. You don't easily forget a Carroll book. --David Langford
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A compelling novel from a major cult author, mixing crime, thriller and the supernatural
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If you love Robertson Davies. If you love Gabriel Garcia Marquez.Paul Auster. John Irving. Tim Burton or Salman Rushdie. If you love wonder, romance, a world full of possibilities that may just get you some place you need to go, read this book. Read any book by Jonathan Carroll and suddenly you'll realize you've been looking for this writer a long time. THE MARRIAGE OF STICKS is everything he does well, BUT more romantic and touching in the end. I didn't know whether I should laugh or cry. I wanted to do both.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This novel was recently published in Poland in translation. I had to go to three bookstores to find a copy because all of the others had sold out already. But Jonathan Carroll does that to you when you know his work. This story is a great one-- as usual it is visionary, romantic, wonderfully written and so full of wisdom that you want to underline every fifth line and take it with you into the restof your life. The one thing the book is NOT is horror!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
For those readers who are familiar with the wonderful writing of Jonathan Carroll...you have been waiting for this book. For those not yet familiar, Marriage of Sticks is a wonderful place to begin. You will be captivated by his characters from the moment you first meet them. This book is filled with magic and mystery, written in a sexy, thought provoking, tender manner.... with the humour and wit we have come to love in all of his stories. I envy anyone who has yet to read this wonderful novel.
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Simply Amazing
Simply amazing, I love these story from the beginning till end.
It start my fascination of Jonathan Carroll others books.
It start my fascination of Jonathan Carroll others books.
Published 14 days ago by Joanna Sroka
Spoilers ahead
I enjoyed this at first but by the end I was totally at a loss. It starts off as a basic love story and takes a supernatural turn as it becomes apparent the protagonist is more... Read more
Published 21 months ago by A custumer
Stick With It
Miranda returns to a class reunion, setting her heart on meeting her first boyfriend, James Stillman. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2008 by Mr. John Frank Herbert
Typical Carroll
This book is brilliant. It's fabulous, just buy a copy and read it. You won't be disappointed.
Published on 10 Mar 2008 by Marc Lyth
from boring to incomprehensible
I had big problems to stick to the plot. The first part describes the life of Miranda, the main character. It is dull, long and boring like high school reunions reminiscences. Read more
Published on 19 Oct 2001 by "jeanfrancoisrit"
The marriage of reality and mystery
The book, like so much of Carroll's work, appears to show the affect of the mystical or magical when it touches upon the lives or freal people. Read more
Published on 23 Sep 2001 by jhildred@unlimited.com
Art, ghosts, adultery and dogs - what more could you want?
This was my first Jonathan Carroll book, but it certainly won't be my last. It starts as a piece of contemporary fiction, with rare-book dealer Miranda starting an affair with art... Read more
Published on 21 Sep 2000
one of literature's great visionaries does it again
In a blurb somewhere, Pat Conroy said that Carroll is a cult waiting to be born. It's time for the birth. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2000
The Magic Is Back!!
I have also been fortunate to read an advance copy of Carroll's new one. Wow. This is a return to form for Carroll, tackling the Big Stuff, and feeling like you are floating... Read more
Published on 26 Mar 1999
Might well be Carroll's masterpiece
I was lucky enough to get hold of an early copy of the book and it held me spellbound for two days and nights. As usual, Carroll offers up romance (and oh, what a romance! Read more
Published on 25 Mar 1999
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